Toronto snowbirds found dead in Florida

MONTREAL — A couple found dead Thursday evening in an apartment in Hallandale Beach., Fla., were apparently Canadians from the Toronto area.

The Miami Herald reported that the couple were David Pichosky, 71, and Rochelle Wise, 66, and that they had been married for four years.

“Foul play is suspected,” Capt. Sonia Quinones of Hallandale Beach Police said on a late-night newscast carried by area TV station Local 10.

Video footage from the scene included a woman, believed to be a neighbour, saying the couple was “from Toronto,” and that “their daughter just called us.”

TV news reports gave the location as 926 Northeast 25th Ave., a gated community known as Venetian Park.

Quinones said the couple had been expected to meet neighbours for lunch Wednesday, but never appeared.

That couple “had a key, they went in to check the apartment and found the two persons dead inside the apartment,” a story on the website of NBC 6 affiliate quoted Quinones as saying.

Police haven’t released the names of the two victims, the NBC report added.

A Miami Herald report said the couple was known to spend winters in Hallandale Beach, and quoted Quinones as saying: “We have few details on how they were killed, but this is definitely a double homicide.”